Tuesday, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:33 AM

One person was killed and several others were missing early Tuesday as a band of severe thunderstorms rumbled across the midwest towards the Southeast, NBC News reported. At least one tornado touched down late Monday in Hutchinson, Kansas, while baseball-sized hail was reported near Chicago and heavy rain triggered flash floods in Kentucky. A derecho swept across several states, according to The Weather Channel. A man died and several others were missing after floods in Johnson County, Kentucky, officials said. The storms were moving towards the Southeast during Tuesday, forecasters said, with an area from the Ohio Valley, Kentucky and Tennessee down to northern Alabama most at risk.
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Mexico's national prisons director and the head of the supermax prison that drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman tunneled his way out of have been fired, and a $3.8 million reward has been offered for his re-arrest, top...

Tuesday, Jul 14, 2015 at 6:35 AM

Mexico's Attorney General's Office
Mexico's national prisons director and the head of the supermax prison that drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman tunneled his way out of have been fired, and a $3.8 million reward has been offered for his re-arrest, top Mexican officials said Monday night. Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said at a news conference that Guzman, the notorious "El Chapo" who headed the deadly Sinaloa drug cartel, had to have had inside help for his escape Saturday night from Altiplano prison west of Mexico City. Investigators found a mile-long, ventilated tunnel big enough for Guzman to have vroomed through it on a motorbike. Thirty-four prison staff members were also under questioning.
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Tuesday, Jul 14, 2015 at 7:00 AM

Washington State Department of Transportation
Two days after the plane she and her grandparents were in vanished over Washington state, a 16-year-old girl walked into a store with only minor injuries, NBC News reported. Hikers picked up Autumn Veatch and drove her to a small-town store, authorities said; she had likely walked from the crash site for 24 hours. There was still no word about Veatch's grandparents, who her mother said were flying Veatch back to school in Washington.
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A woman convicted of terrorism after the militant-inspired killing of an American schoolteacher Ibolya Ryan in 2014, was executed by the United Arab Emirates Monday, the state news agency WAM reported.

Monday, Jul 13, 2015 at 12:52 PM

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A woman convicted of terrorism after the militant-inspired killing of an American schoolteacher Ibolya Ryan in 2014, was executed by the United Arab Emirates Monday, the state news agency WAM reported. Ala'a Badr Abdullah al-Hashemi, 31, was sentenced to death on June 29 for stabbing Romanian-born Ryan in the restroom of a shopping mall in Abu Dhabi. Hashemi was also convicted of setting up a social media account to spread militant ideology with the intention of undermining the government and of giving money to militants for attacks, WAM reported. The report did not reveal how Hashemi was executed.
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A frantic search was underway Monday for the notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman — but there was no sign of him more than 24 hours after his elaborate escape from a maximum-security prison in Mexico.

Monday, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:43 AM

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A frantic search was underway Monday for the notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman — but there was no sign of him more than 24 hours after his elaborate escape from a maximum-security prison in Mexico. Guzman slipped into a shaft through the shower floor of his prison cell and got away in a mile-long tunnel outfitted with a motorbike. "This is like capturing Osama bin Laden, having him spend a year in prison, and then walking away from that prison only to re-engage in his terrorist activities," said Anthony Coulson, a former supervisor at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Barry McCaffrey, former director of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy and an NBC News analyst, said Guzman would probably not leave Mexico because "he's safest there." "I mean, entire police departments have been bought," he added.
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Severe weather could affect almost 50 million Americans from
Wisconsin to Ohio and Kentucky Monday, forecasters warned. Heavy rain, lightening, and high winds are likely, according to the Weather Channel.

Monday, Jul 13, 2015 at 8:22 AM

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Severe weather could affect almost 50 million Americans from
Wisconsin to Ohio and Kentucky on Monday, forecasters warned. Heavy rain, lightening, and high winds are likely, according to the Weather Channel. In several counties in Wisconsin tornado sirens were sounded. Central Illinois was also at high risk of twisters. The severe weather was predicted to move southeastwards to Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Carolinas late Monday.
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Monday, Jul 13, 2015 at 6:21 AM

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A Tibetan monk who was one of China's most prominent political prisoners has died in prison, a relative and human rights activists said on Monday. The United States, European Union and international rights groups had called for the release of the monk, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, 65, who died on Sunday in Chuandong prison in the southwestern city of Chengdu. Tenzin Delek was serving a 20-year sentence on charges of "crimes of terror and incitement of separatism." The cause of death was not clear.
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Monday, Jul 13, 2015 at 6:13 AM

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French police freed 18 employees held by armed robbers in a suburban clothing store, NBC News reported. Elite special forces were called to the Primark clothing store in the Qwartz de Villeneuve-la-Garenne mall in northwestern Paris. All 18 employees were released, a spokesman for the city government told NBC News. However, it was not immediately clear if the suspects had been detained. "Right now it looks like an armed robbery gone wrong rather than a hostage-taking," police spokeswoman Magalie Charbonneau told NBC News.
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European leaders reached an agreement with near-bankrupt Greece Monday on a third debt bailout, removing an immediate threat that the country could collapse financially and leave the euro, NBC News reported.

Monday, Jul 13, 2015 at 9:18 AM

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European leaders reached an agreement with near-bankrupt Greece Monday on a third debt bailout, removing an immediate threat that the country could collapse financially and leave the euro, NBC News reported. Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, confirmed to reporters: "There is no Grexit." The agreement includes the privatization of some state assets and needs to be ratified by a reluctant legislature in Athens as well as parliaments in other eurozone countries. Summit chair Donald Tusk said the European bailout program includes "serious reforms" and "financial support." Tough conditions imposed by international lenders, led by Germany, could bring down Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' leftist government and cause an outcry in Greece.
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Sunday, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:28 PM

A former poker player and recent graduate in interdisciplinary science in Amsterdam, Martijn Schirp has been experimenting with a new way to take psychedelic drugs: called 'microdosing.' The process involves routinely taking a small fraction of a normal dose of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or magic mushroom (the latter is legal to purchase in coffee shops in Amsterdam but not the former). Microdosing has gained a cult following amongst a small group of hallucinogen enthusiasts like Schirp, who now writes at HighExistence.com. Proponents report improvements in perception, mood and focus, minus the trippy tangerine trees and marmalade skies normally associated with psychedelics.
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Monday, Jul 13, 2015 at 6:26 AM

Washington State Department of Transportation
Crews were searching for a private plane with a family of three on board that went missing Saturday while flying from Montana to Washington, authorities said. The three people were identified as the pilot, Leland Bowman, 62, his wife, Sharon Bowman, 63, both of Marion, Montana, and their step-granddaughter, Autumn Veatch,16, of Bellingham, Washington, the Washington state Transportation Department said. The plane, a red and white Beech 35 aircraft, left Calisto, Montana, at 6 p.m. ET Saturday and was supposed to arrive in the city of Lynden, Washington, a few hours later, the department said. The flight never arrived, and nervous relatives contacted the authorities. No sightings of the plane or debris have been reported.
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Chuck de Caro, the former CNN journalist who last month shot and killed a would-be robber who accosted his wife, former CNN anchor Lynne Russell, is recovering from multiple gunshot wounds and even managing...

Sunday, Jul 12, 2015 at 9:04 PM

University of New Mexico Hospital
Chuck de Caro, the former CNN journalist who last month shot and killed a would-be robber who accosted his wife, former CNN anchor Lynne Russell, is recovering from multiple gunshot wounds and even managing an anti-terrorism exercise from his New Mexico hospital bed, doctors said Sunday. De Caro, 65 — a former investigative reporter, Special Forces member and military expert — killed Tomorio Walton, 27, in a shootout in an Albuquerque motel room June 30, said Russell — herself a licensed private investigator and former Fulton County, Georgia, sheriff's deputy with two martial arts black belts. De Caro was seriously injured and has been in University of New Mexico Hospital —the state's only Level 1 Trauma Center — since then, doctors said Sunday. Since leaving journalism, de Caro, who has been a consultant to the Pentagon, developed a cyberwar platform called SOFTWAR, and he's been actively managing an exercise this weekend from his bed.
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Sunday, Jul 12, 2015 at 6:59 PM

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped prison for the second time Saturday night using advanced underground tunnels built underneath the prison— but who is this criminal mastermind? The barely literate drug lord oversaw the explosion of subterranean networks used to smuggle massive amounts of narcotics across the U.S. border. The son of a poor farmer, Guzman was born in Sinaloa and entered the local drug economy in the 1970s after dropping out of school. He rose gradually within the Sinaloa cartel, and in the early 1990s took control. In 1993, Guzman was arrested in Guatemala, and extradited to Mexico, where he was put in a maximum security prison. He continued to run the organization behind bars while maintaining a comfortable lifestyle, surrounded by associates and paid-off guards. In January 2001, some of them helped him slip out of the prison while hidden in a laundry cart.
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Monday, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:38 AM

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European leaders argued into the morning Monday on a plan to avoid Greece's exit from the euro zone during at an emergency summit in Brussels, Reuters reported. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was told to push six sweeping measures, including tax and pension reforms, through Greece's Parliament by Wednesday night in order to persuade his 18 partners in the euro zone to release immediate funds to avert bankruptcy and start negotiations on a third bailout program estimated at up to $95.5 billion. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country is the biggest contributor to euro zone bailouts, said the conditions weren't yet right to start negotiations, adding that the most important currency, trust, "has been lost."
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Sunday, Jul 12, 2015 at 3:27 PM

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called out the FBI Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" for allowing the man accused of shooting nine people at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston to purchase a gun. In her first on-camera comments about the situation since the FBI admitted the errors Friday, Haley said the agency told officials in her state that it was a federal mistake. "When the FBI called us, we were told that it was an FBI issue, that it was not a state issue," she said. "When someone has a charge filed against them, it should go into a database, and it should be shown immediately to anyone's that looking at it," Haley also commented. FBI officials said last week that the accused shooter should have been prevented from buying a firearm because he acknowledged drug possession in a previous arrest.
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